[p2p-hackers] Webcast Tonight: 25 Years After the AT&T Breakup

[Seth Johnson]

(Sorry for this one further notice -- webcast will be available. --
Seth)

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Subject:   Webcast available --- Event TONIGHT -- 25th Anniversary.
MARCH 6th, 2009 TIME: 6PM-9PM
Date:      Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:12:13 -0500
From:      Bruce Kushnick <bruce at newnetworks.com>
To:        <openinfrastructurealliance at gmail.com>


FOR THOSE NOT IN NEW YORK CITY we've arranged a webcast. 

ALSO

*** NEW SPEAKERS ADDED ***

Carl Mayer, Esq.  The State of Privacy in the US.

Kenneth Levy      Former FCC telecom lawyer at the time of 
                  Divestiture.

Lou Klepner       The New York City Co-op Fiber Network

For Immediate Release
(CONTACT INFO BELOW)

EVENT: Has Divestiture Worked?
A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Breakup of AT&T

WEBCAST AVAILABLE: For those not in New York City, there 
will be an available live web cast of the event.
http://www.communityfiberproject.net/stream/      


Complete agenda and speaker bios at: -- SEE NEW SPEAKERS.
http://25thanniversaryofthebreakupofatt.blogspot.com/           

DATE:       * FRIDAY, MARCH 6th, 2009 TIME: 6PM-9PM

LOCATION:   New York University, Warren Weaver Hall 251 
            Mercer St. Room 109.

PRICE:      ADMISSION IS FREE. (RSVP requested, by email to: 
            rsvp at bway.net -or- Facebook, LinkedIn, or MeetUp 
            ISOC-NY)

If you're concerned with the future of the Internet:

How does America get gigabit, open and ubiquitous, broadband 
telecom infrastructure?

The goal of this conference is to outline the history of the 
last 25 years, discuss the current market issues, then give 
a view of the future of broadband and telecom in the US that 
has been mostly untold in the media. It is a future that 
leads to ubiquitous, very high speed networks based on an 
infrastructure that is open to all competitors -- giving 
customers choice, lower prices and new quality products and 
innovative services. And widely acknowledged as critical for 
long term economic growth.

AGENDA (subject to change)

PANEL 1:                Historical perspective:

* Bruce Kushnick        An overview and leading financial 
                        indicators. What happened over the 
                        last 25 years?

* Tom Allibone          Consumers: telephony costs and other 
  & Dean Landsman       issues of telephony and broadband.

* Ken Levy              Living history, perspective from 
                        within FCC during the Break Up!

* Alex Goldman          ISP/CLEC industry: regulatory 
                        follies over the past decade

* Mark Cooper           The Failure of Market Fundamentalism 
                        in the Telecom Sector: How 
                        Deregulation Derailed Divestiture or 
                        The Operation was Successful, but 
                        the Patient Died

PANEL 2:                The Present State:

* Jonathan Askin        The legal/regulatory environment 
                        then and now.

* Dave Burstein         Broadband market roundup

* Joe Plotkin           Small business broadband needs, and 
                        surviving as a small competitive 
                        provider.

* David Rosen           What filmmakers and other creators 
                        need to know

* Carl Mayer            Privacy and the latest on the 
                        wiretapping case

PANEL 3:                The Future State and Alternative 
                        Approaches:

* Fred Goldstein        The current state of fiber optic 
                        networks. Are new models like 
                        Structural Separation needed now?

* Lou Klepner           NYC co-op fiber network

* Dana Spiegel          The future of broadband spectrum

* W. Scott McCollough   Legally rewiring telecom 
                        infrastructure: What is possible? 
                        Divestiture2? Separation?

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For More Information:
Joe Plotkin
T: 646-502-9796
E: bwayjoe at bway.net   

Internet Society, New York Chapter
E: president at isoc-ny.org   
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